face with page several harry reid well it was my own sense came party at home sounds like senator vitter has completely forgotten his job description is look at the bright side least he's not trying to skip out of the president's speech for a rendezvous again with the d.c. madam at least we don't think yes and the very very ugly of bank of america even though the bank is on the verge of collapse. seen it still found time to harass one of its customers last month deborah crabtree lost her husband to cancer over her husband still owe the bank a three thousand dollar mortgage and bank of america wanted its money so the bank didn't even wait one day to begin own doing her for that money during the during the wake her husband's wake the bank of america called the crabtree home every fifteen minutes and called as many as forty eight times a day demanding that she pay up the bank even urge her to spend her last five thousand dollars on paying them rather than providing her husband with a funeral this is the same bank the gladly took forty five billion dollars in bailout money courtesy of taxpay

these wise individuals and keeps his campaign promise and says no to big oil the bad senator david vitter republican from louisiana tweeted yesterday that he would not be attending tonight's president of the president's job joint speech to congress about jobs and why because he has to catch a football game and stop it or tweeted family and friends coming over first since game tomorrow on or on the recovery and super bowl that's right senator vitter things football is more important than drafts however now here is senator harry reid scheduled votes before and after president obama's speech basically as a way to force senators to attend and vitter was not at all happy about that he wrote in his face with page several harry reid all of us my own sense can party at home sounds like senator vitter has completely forgotten his job description is look at the bright side at least he's not trying to skip out of the president's speech for a rendezvous again with the d.c. madam at least we don't think yes at the very very ugly the bank of america even though the bank is on the verge of class. seen i

david vitter is a schmuck and senator john ensign and governor mark sanford who were part of the c. street scandals that i wrote about in a book c. street and had their scandals covered up in fact the senate ethics committee just came out with a devastating report on senator ensign who resigned to get to i think prevent himself from being indicted is my guess there didn't get a whole lot of coverage the second time around everyone like the sort of the cable dating sex scandal and they were really looking at the politics of it now the interesting thing there is if you are a conservative politically conservative evangelical or fundamentalist christian they're not always the same thing but they can be. you do you have as part of your belief system you get to you get a second chance you get to say i'm a sinner and i think it's something that liberals again and again are kind of stunned and perplexed by. when when these sort of moral values family values guys sin why did the supporters keep supporting them because their supporters never believed that these guys were good guys anyway we'r

all right it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight it goes to senator david vitter a louisiana republican is facing a dilemma tonight should you do is job and attend president obama's jobs on capitol hill or should he hold his n.f.l. kickoff party yeah you heard me correctly is the ball party there is torn between attending the jobs each are hosting a party to watch the new orleans saints take on the green bay packers on wednesday this was his decision. i'm going to be watching from my family room and matter in louisiana because i have a saints game party there and i'm absolutely going to be there for the big game kickoff for the same season and a whole lot of stuff oh my goodness ok so you're not going to jeopardize because you're staying away she obviously has a saying that i have my priorities. he has his priorities yes he does though better is a fanatic he's got his priorities that is great to know i am sure the residents of will be the n.f.l. addie's knowing that their elected senator cares more about football than helping them find jobs now better to fill his facebook pag

each came out senator majority leader harry reid decided to have some fun and listen to what david vitter posted this afternoon typical harry reid he's now scheduled votes that should have been held this morning for right before and after the president's speech pens in those who would have kept the speech like me so now i'll miss my own saints game party at home always knew harry was a dirty bird. oh don't worry only strengthens my who dat resolve on of the super bowl so the big question is that are going to just come in and vote and still miss the president's speech nobody knows his office hasn't released that and hasn't taken it to facebook yet but vitter is not the only person boycotting this speech senator jim de mint says he's not attending along with congressman joe walsh ron paul and paul brown in fact brown says he'll be holding a twitter town hall in his office instead of making a trip across the street to the house chamber to see this in person so here's my question for those skipping the president's address tonight congress currently has a fourteen percent job approval rating m

these republicans have a good reason, like louisiana senator and "former" whore rotisserie david vitter. [ laughter ] vitter is going to be at home. >> i'm going to be watching from my family room in metairie, louisiana, because i have a saints game party there, and i'm absolutely going to be there for the big game. as a fanatic, i have my priorities. >> stephen: yeah! priorities. there's only one kickoff game, but there'll be years more crippling unemployment. in fact, because of the saints/packers game, some nbc affiliates in wisconsin aren't even carrying the speech. you know what, i'm not watching the speech either. i'm a huge fan of the wisconsin pac-men. time to tailgate. let's do this right here. let's go. let's fire up the grill. all right. john the johnsonville brats going. i cannot wait to watch that football. i just enjoying -- enjoy watching that big guy tack that other guy for the points. i love watching the points. i got a sixer of old milwaukee here. i've been through a few i got a sixer of old milwaukee, and a sixer of listerine to wash away the taste of the old milwauke

another republican david vitter is staying home to host a football party.y are taking on the green bay packers in the n.f.l. opener. >> a reminder for the president's prime time speech. we'll carry it live at 4:00 p.m.. >>> amazon and california legislative leaders are expected to announce a deal in the sales tax. they are expecting it to collect sales taxes. they collected signatures for a referendum challenging the measure. that ballot measure is now on hold. the agreement will avoid a referendum battle. >>> all right. 4:50 let's check in with mike about the quality of our heat today as opposed to yesterday. >> maybe you won't need the air conditioner as much today and turn it off for a little bit longer. with the winds of change blowing in we do not have spare-the-air day. good morning to you. thanks for tuning in on this thursday morning. you can see from the roof cam, back towards the port of oakland. we do have low cloud filtering in the bay area. keep an eye on sfo, flight arrival delays like yesterday. 48 in novato. fog in the north bay valleys. war

two republican senators won't be here, jim demint and david vitter. three house republicans are skipping including joe walsh who says he does not want to be a, quote, prop for the president. the two presidential candidates who are in congress, ron paul, he says he's not coming, but michele bachmann will be here and she plans to hold a news conference later. there will not be an official gop response. boehner says many people would rather watch football than hear from another politician. brian. >> that's one way of putting it. kelly o'donnell who we swear is inside the house chamber tonight. >>> david gregory, moderator of "meet the press" and andrea mitchell. of course the economy is broken, but adding to that, our politics are broken right now, to it's against that backdrop that the president walks in the chamber. >> at some point, i spoke to money managers this week who are dealing with americans who are watching their savings and wondering about what's happening with the economy let alone jobs, and said this is a fund -- with regard to what's plagu

senator david vitter has a footbaba party to throw in louisiana.blican will watch from home. another republican, senator jim demint of south carolina, says he's heard enough of the speeches so he too will sit this one out. the cost of the president's plan is likely in the $300 billion range or more. >> he will put forward, both in his speech and supporting material, a very detailed series of proposals to grow the economy and create jobs. >> reporter: these proposals include tax relief for companies that create jobs and hire new workers. infrastructure investment. new construction projects for schools and transportation and clean energy. assistance for the long-term unemployed. and a payroll tax cut extension. the speech being in front of congress is a major part of the politics of all of this. with the 2012 election coming up, president obama's really trying to send the message that if this doesn't work out, the members of congress are sharing some of the blame. rob and tanya? >> a lot riding on the president's speech tonight. all ears will be on t

jim demint wants to sit this one and david vitter of louisiana says he is staying home to host a footballing on the packers to kick off the n.f.l. season. >>> thank you so much. a reminder to our viewers, stay with abc7 for the prime time speech before a joint session of congress. we'll carry it live at 4:00 p.m. >> investigators are trying to figure out what caused an engine on a virgin america flight that zpartd from san francisco to blow and force the plane to make an emergency landing. the plane was an a-bus and landed grand junction. a passenger on board said he saw flames from the rear of the jet coming out of one of engines. there were 111 people on board. no injuries, passengers were taken to a hotel as an alternate flight arrangements are being made to get them to their original destination. >> we're work to get more information and bring you more later in the news captain. right now, if you are wondering is it going cool down, especially inland. yesterday was really hot. >> it will be hot in some areas but quite as hot. after that, it will be gone for an extended period of time.

[laughter] >> this is a photograph of a man named charlie vitters who was the bogus superintendent whosolidated the site from the four different construction companies that were running it all under his aegis. and we are in a double wide trailer here and these are the representatives of the various trades that were running the sites. security and water and electrical and iron workers and -- everyone concerned far more than i can name. and charlie welcomed me into that world, and certainly educated me to the way the process was. and i've enjoyed his company. i hope he's here tonight. throughout the nine months, the one consistent act one could see everywhere on the site, the most emblematic image were men and women raking either on their hands and knees with a small hand tool, sifting it through screens or standing up and raking the debris fields that were prepared for them. and they did this from when it was a pile till when it came down, down 72 feet below street level to bedrock in manhattan. and you see here two firemen who i became friendly with. paul on the right, retired, and his

leland vitter, thank you. martha: there are new reports of u.s.e bases springing up overseas. we're going to tell you where those are and what kind of tools they may be in the war against terror and against al-qaeda. we'll be right back. martha: weather in california is whipping up whirl winds known as dust devils, caused by heat and wind and caused by ash from a wildfire in this area, experts say the wind formations could swell up to 30 feet wide and grow more than 3000 feet tall! bill: put some horns on that baby! martha: i love the tasmanian devil. bill: big party tonight. martha: congratulations to all of us, right? see you back here tomorrow. bye guys. jon: and we begin with this fox news alert on two huge

so senator rubio, senator vitter from louisiana, who most certainly has been shoulder to shoulder with me, helping with our disaster recovery. we have got pages. in fact, jefferson parish just called me the other day, a republican president of jefferson parish, and said he's got $100 million of projects in jefferson parish alone, 100 million stopped up because of this unnecessary debate. we have the two senators from maine, senator collins and senator snowe who most certainly had the effects or felt the effects of hurricane irene up the east coast. we had senator toomey from pennsylvania whose also state received record amounts of flooding. we had senator blunt from missouri. the people of missouri, not only are they desperate for fema money, they need agriculture help immediately, they need community development block grant funding, and they need corps of engineers funding. is there corps of engineers funding in the house approach? zero, zero for the corps of engineers. so if you're representing a community that's had flooding because your levee failed or you don't have a levee and yo

louisiana senator david vitter as you saw there on fox news will be a-wol watching the saints game.or demint said he isn't going. gop probably won't even be giving a televised response. in case you think the republicans have a lock on partisan or childishness, house minority leader, listen to what house minority leader pelosi said yesterday. "the republicans' refusel to respond to the president's proposal and jobs is not only disrespectful to him but to the american people." that's hardly the point. the point is nothing now is too trivial not to pick up and sling at the other side. the end result, nothing gets done. we did some checking. the current congress is on track to be the least productive on record. lawmakers only managing to pass 28 bills so far. 28 bills. the last three congresses with the house under both democratic and republican control doesn't matter, all averaged three times that number. nothing's getting done. nobody seems to like it. a new "wall street journal"/nbc poll puts the job approval rating for congress at 13%. 13%. not 30%, 13%. 1-3%. record low job approva

what is louisiana senator david vitter planning for tomorrow night?g to be watching from my family room in louisiana because i have a saints game party there and i'm absolutely going to be there for the big game. kickoff of the saints season and the whole nfl. as a fan-atic i have my priorities. >> of course he was known for different kinds of parties in the past. if that is not enough where will georgia representative paul brown be during obama's address tomorrow night? well, in his office across the street. well, i say rather than joining his colleagues on the capital brown will be sitting in his office posting comments about the president's address on twitter. the georgia congressman did the same thing during this year's state of the union address. here's what i think. if these people refuse to respect public office they should stop calling themselves the honorable before their name. just dump the whole pretense of shared public duty. that's what i say. by the way, speaking of twitter i'll be tweeting tonight during the gop debate in real time and

signed by my colleague, senator vitter, and signed by my friend and colleague, representative alexander, who represents this district, this is our -- one of our number one economic development projects in the state of louisiana, and what did the representative do last night? he voted to gut the program. i have dozens of other letters, but i'm going to pause because i think i have made my point, but i'm going to read every one that i have between now and when this debate ends, and i just pray that the press will do their job and ask the members that voted and sent these letters why did you send a letter to the secretary asking for the program and then turn around and gut the program when you came to washington? i'd like to ask for five more minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. landrieu: now, the other point is this. this is not just an issue for like one state or two states. that's why democrats feel really strongly about this, because this is really about the whole country. the president has declared disasters this year in 48 of the 50 states. now, you know, maybe if w

leland vitter is following s the story in jerusalem. >> reporter: all these celebrations is like a high school senior saying i'm going harvard because he assistant in the application. sometimes it helps to wait a little bit until you get the acceptance letter. the united states has said they will veto a palestinian state if it comes to the security council. so the big question, what are the palestinians going to make as their next step. >> abas returned and received a warm welcome from his supporters. failure of the statehood bid has the potential to deepen the feud between abbas and hamas but also plunge israel and palestinians into another round of violence. during friday's round of speeches at the united nations a larges crowd gathered proved that extreme broadcast israeli's benjamin netanyahu' address. soldiers also clashed with palestinians on the west bank. to when you look down on the street and you see all the rocks. it's not bullets but something like this hitting you in the head or even arm can cause a lot of damage. >> it's incredibly brutal. you can see all the gas covered h

leland vitter has the latest from our jerusalem bureau. >> reporter: the palestinian president certainly has asked for calm and he has asked for peaceful protests, ali, but not only did we see folks who were not very happy on the streets today, we also saw a whole lot of anger. >> in ramallah's town square, two american flags burned to cheers and jeers from the crowd. that was the exception during a 10,000 person protest rally celebration that resem bled a street party of sorts with kids let out of school to celebrate the coming u.n. vote. ten minutes down the road, their jubilation turned to anger. >> you get a sense of where the battle lines are, you see the palestinians throwing rockings at the israeli soldiers. these guys just got another bottle coming in, more rocks coming in, and these guys are the front line with the rubber bullets as they try to ache aim at whoever is throwing these rocks back at them. we also see that the israelis have been responding with tear gas. israeli soldiers have now decided to take charge to try to capture palestinians. we're going to go ahead and run w

. >> heather: thank you leland vitter. >> gregg: president obama is targeting the wealthiest citizensel rule would raise taxes on those currently earning one million or more. is it the right move? fred blakeman was former assistant for george bush and alexander is strategist for john kerry for president. thanks for being here. brad, let me start with you. the administration says this new tax will ensure that billionaires pay the same percentage of earnings as middle income taxpayers. you know the polls they consistently show that americans do support higher taxes on the wealthy. isn't this a populist idea that will be very hard for republicans to reject? >> no it won't be hard because it's not equitable. this president would like you to believe that most wealthy are not paying their share when in fact they are. 6% of our entire population pays for everybody else. this is robin hood theory of economics, give to the poor and it will solve our problems. the problems there is not rich in america to get us out of the hole we are in. >> gregg: even john boehner was saying we need to get rid

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in their defense, david vitter is one of those senators. the saints are playing.s are important, but he'll probably be hanging out with caterers. jim demint is also not going. he has a tupperware party. >> a lot of stations aren't even airing. >> that's shameful by itself. >> thanks, guys. well, president obama will lay out his plan tonight for getting jobless americans back to work. how it plays in washington is one thing. how it plays across the country is another. cnn's poppy harlow spoke with small-town business owners who talk about what they'd want to see happen. >> i'm not an economist. it's not what i do. i sell appliances for a liveing. i do what i do best and sftick o it. i hope the government can do what they do best. the bickering back and forth needs to end. it's definitely hurting the consumer confidence. it trickles all the way down to main street. they need to fix that right now. >> i'm not very optimistic, but it's like, you know, there's nothing you can do. it's out of our hands, the individual people. we can't even borrow money anymore. the bank

david vitter from the state of louisiana said he would not support the bill that he had voted for lastion in disaster relief, so essentially signaling to senator reid i am not supporting that any more. so does reid take this bill that has been tabled which is hill speak if you will, essentially demonstrating that there are not the votes to pass it, does he strip out the offsets, the pay fors, which were measures essentially stripping money from green energy projects that were needed to get house conservatives to support it and perhaps does he send the bill back stripping out those components that the democrats find objectionable and then challenge the house to either pass that version of the bill or we continue the stalemate. jenna: we need a diagram. let me just take this butt by bit. the house has the bill, sent it to the senate. the senate kills the bill is not even going to consider it. they could take the bill, rejigger it. but if there is no one at the house we could be in a shut down situation. >> reporter: both the house and senate are supposed to be on recess next week due to

louisiana republican senator david vitter won't be there either.s coming from both parties. unless you become numb, you have heard it loud and clear. >> he's the most effective food stamp president in american history. >> tea party can go straight to hell! >> that's what we have witnessed since friday. obama getten. barack lips now. >> why bother with a bipartisan speech? as paul krugman writes. but there are republicans leaders who say they want to work with the president. in a letter to obama, house speaker john boehner and mjt leader eric cantor write it is critical our differences not preclude us from taking action in areas where there is common agreement and not approach this as all or nothing situation. our question for you is how should the president handle the country's divisiveness in his speech tonight? i'll read your comments later this hour. >>> two men who want barack obama's job, rick perry and mitt romney, clashing last night at the big presidential debate. >> interesting to watch because sparring over social security and who is bett

. >> brian: i'll tell you right now, we got to go to the west bank where leeland vitter is standing bystinian president asked for peace, but that certainly has not been the case, at least so far today. go ahead and look. you see the large israeli military presence down there. they have been moving up and moving back with their riot police and also that huge jeep which emit this is loud screaming sound trying to push all the palestinian kids who are throwing molotov cocktails, rocks, bottles, at the palestinians. i'll set t scene. you can come just now to your right. you can see some of the burning tires they've set up. the fires have gone down now as they tried to block what's happening from the israeli soldiers with the smoke. you see the israeli checkpoint and the youth are gathering where they start to throw stones. you look farther down the street towards the palestinian city of ramallah and that's where everybody is coming out from. there is a lot of anger here on the street about the fact that they feel like they will not get a palestinian state. in fact, we heard a lot of anti-o

it's been introduced by both representative rob bishop of utah and david vitter of louisiana. this bill would force the interior department to stop blocking offshore energy exploration. that department's stall tactics have gone so far that even president bill clinton has called them ridiculous. the domestic jobs, domestic energy and deficit reduction act would reduce the obama administration and force the obama administration to quit stalling. the barrage of new regulations coming out of washington continues to be a big, wet blanket, a big, wet blanket thrown over the job creators in our country. in july of 2011, this administration issued 229 rules, and it finalized 379 additional rules that are going to cost our job creators over $9.5 billion. that's in july alone. our plan includes a bill that i have introduced called the employment impact act. this bill forces washington regulators to look, to look before they leap when it comes to regulations that could hurt american jobs. under this bill that i have introduced, every regulatory agency would be required to prepare a jobs

heller from nevada, senator hoeven from north dakota, senator toomey from pennsylvania, and senator vitter from louisiana, many of whom have experienced disasters in their state in the past and remember those terrible days or they're experiencing them now. and they said, we don't follow the "throw the wrench in the gears principle," we're going to follow the "let's get it done principle." let's get the work done. let's move forward. let's stop fighting and let's provide immediate and robust funding to help our communities. and so they voted across party lines -- i've done that before; i've been elected now three times. i mean, you can sometimes cross party lines to do the right thing, find middle ground. so they did. they found middle ground and we came up with a $6.9 billion package. now, let me say to answer specifically the senator from arizona, who i have a lot of respect for, we did not pull this sum out of the air. this $6.th.9 billion, which is h more robust than the $2.6 billion that the house wants to provide, is a much more accurate estimate based on actual numbers given to the a

browneat from nevada, senator hogan from north dakota, senator toomey from pennsylvania and senator vitterm louisiana. many of whom have experienced disasters in their state in the past and remember thosememb tere days or they are experiencing. them now.and they said, we don't follow the throw the ranch in the gears principle.le,"e' we are going to follow the let'g get it done principle. let's get the work done. let's move forward. let's stop fighting. robust let's provide immediate and robust funding to help our community. so they voted across partye; lines. elect i've done that n before. been elected now three times. you can sometimes crossed party lines to do the right thing. find a middle ground, so theye did. w they found the ground and we cameme up with a $6.9 billion package. fm let me say to answer specifically the senator from have a lot of respect for, we did not pull this sum out of the year. this $6.9 billion, which is much more robust than the tube.9 that the house wants to provide, is a muchh more accurate estimate. h based on numbers given to the appropriations committee by

i want to thank members on the other side of the aisle, particularly senators blunt, senators vitter, senator rubio, senator snowe, that have lent their voice and their vote to help us get to this point. and i particularly want to thank senator blunt for spending 15 minutes on the floor today saying how crucial this is to his state of missouri, but to the whole country. and i want to thank the members on my side, senators leahy and senator schumer and kay hagan and others that have helped so much this week, senator shaheen, that has been at all the press conferences. senator sanders. now, let me say that this is the only vehicle, the only vehicle that we have before us to do long-term full funding for the disaster relief. this bill will provide help to nebraska, to minot, north dakota, to new york, to the east coast, to tuscaloosa, alabama, joplin, missouri. if we don't vote for this, the dert funding will be empty. this money gives us not only additional funding for disaster relief but it also provides an additional $1.1 billion for the corps of engineers and funding for a few other